15 percent of its customer base have contacted the company.
Just under two million people have requested their genetic data be deleted from the servers of 23andMe.
Interim chief executive Joseph Selsavage said about 15 percent of its customer base have contacted the company since it filed for bankruptcy protection in March, reports TechCrunch.
Earlier this week, more than two dozen U.S states
sued 23andMe to challenge the sale of its customers’ private data. The states argue that the company cannot sell the data of its 15 million customers without their explicit permission.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
